Fans at this weekend’s Homecoming football game witnessed a piece of Puget Sound history unfold. Twenty years after the original mascot’s debut, the university unveiled a new look for Grizz, the Loggers’ No. 1 fan.
The University of Puget Sound will host a powerful residency with New York’s Reentry Theater of Harlem (RTH), bringing its innovative, arts-based approach to justice and rehabilitation to campus from Oct. 20 to Nov. 17. The visit, featuring RTH founder Alex Anderson and assistant art director Rory Anderson and Arts educator Charanya Ramakrishnan, is a major initiative of the university’s Mellon Foundation-funded project to reimagine justice through the humanities.
Each fall, the University of Puget Sound welcomes families, alumni, and friends back to campus for a weekend of connection, celebration, and community. Homecoming & Family Weekend offers Loggers across the generations the opportunity to experience campus life together while honoring the traditions and people that make Puget Sound what it is.
The University of Puget Sound celebrated a successful fiscal year 2024-25, announcing it raised $12.1 million in gifts and pledges from more than 3,700 donors. A key driver of this year's success was the Puget Sound Fund, which received an impressive $2.1 million.
The Puget Sound Fund provides vital and flexible support for the university’s most critical needs. It is a resource that touches every part of the university, from financial aid and faculty retention to capital improvements and co-curricular programs. The fund is highlighted each spring during Logger Day Challenge.
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Summer in the Pacific Northwest is a beautiful time to enjoy the outdoors and explore both around Tacoma and across the region. Puget Sound students certainly took advantage of the sunshine, but where was Grizz? The university’s beloved mascot was a bit elusive this summer. Did Grizz go backpacking? Hibernate?
New research into the inter-personal relations connecting China and Central America will provide a critical perspective on shifting global alliances. This work, led by Monica DeHart, University of Puget Sound professor of sociology and anthropology, has been awarded a prestigious 2025 Project Development Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
While working at Mural Arts Philadelphia, an organization based inside the former home and studio of acclaimed painter Thomas Eakins, interdisciplinary artist Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter unearthed a disturbing piece of the past online. Researching in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' digital archive, she discovered photographs from 1882 of a young Black girl, nude and vulnerable, taken by Eakins in the very room where she stood.
University of Puget Sound will host a series of events next week to mark National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, Sept. 16, and Constitution Day on Wednesday, Sept. 17.
The events, organized by Puget Sound’s Civic Engagement team and the Office of General Counsel and Risk Management, aim to foster civic participation and educate the campus community on the rights and responsibilities outlined in the U.S. Constitution.
The University of Puget Sound is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduates, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company featured Puget Sound in the 2026 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 391 Colleges.